Beaver May Hire Help Just For One Resident’s Right-To-Knows

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Beaver Borough says the Right-to-Know requests filed by a single resident have cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. Council has discussed putting someone on the payroll to do nothing but answer them.

“We talked about having a part time person that just does right to knows, and pay them extra, because (current staff) don’t have time to do it,” Councilman Todd Hindman said at a September 8 council meeting.

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  • Records going back to 2006
  • The bill that could ban her for a year

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